A reported DeepMind debugging-round prompt. What's scored is your search order, not your bug list, the overfit-one-batch ladder that finds 90% of flat-loss causes in under an hour.
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Your training run compiles and runs, but the loss is flat. Walk me through your debugging process.
A reported DeepMind debugging-round prompt. What's scored is your search order, not your bug list, the overfit-one-batch ladder that finds 90% of flat-loss causes in under an hour.
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